Her speech was pretty effective it got her point across. With the certain devices used in the sentences it emphasized the point. The way she used some of the devices made her problem relate to you and you feel her pain. She used an example using a rhetoric question stating "Are you human?", she saying she still feels human even though she has the AIDS virus. Other people may try and alienate her due to her virus, but we are all human and we all have the same feelings.